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1. Preseetha Kollamthodi
EMEA Channels Leader
www.linkedin.com/in/preseetha
@preseethak
Tactics and strategies
that drive a highly
personalised brand
experience
2. 50-80%
of the buying
process is done
before you speak
to your buyer
Email remains
preferred
channel of most
consumers
Mobile and
social
engagement are
up
Online traffic
and sales are
increasing
The Customer Journey Has Changed
3. opened email
used rewards points called call center
responded to promotional text
no purchase
wrote –a-review
gift card purchase
purchasedregistered
downloaded mobile app
visited storebrowse abandoned
added to shopping cart
signed up for text alerts
used mobile app
browsed website
best customer
first purchaseopted-in
unusedrewardspoints
lapsedcustomer
customeradvocate
largepurchase
visited website
abandoned shopping cart
clicked email
returned a product
addedtowishlist
re-purchased
Multiple Interactions with Your Brand
6. a seamless and
integrated
experience across
channels
to receive
personalized, timely
information, service
and promotions
you to know and
understand them
Customers also have high expectations…
7. Econsultancy Study: The Customer Connection
Customer Experience
81%
of companies say they have,
or are close to having, a holistic
view of their customers
37%
of consumers say their
favourite brand
understands them
while
only
…
… ???
???
The Great Customer Experience Divide
8. Getting access to all of my data
Building a single view of the
customer
Delivering relevant content to each
customer
Providing a consistent customer
experience across channels
Interacting with customers in real
time
But there are many challenges making this hard
for marketers
9. AND How do you?
Attract New
Customers
Grow Existing
Relationships
Build Brand Loyalty
and Advocacy
10. 3 Steps to a Highly Personalised
Brand Experience
1. Focus on
Customer Journey
2. Engagement
Marketing
3. Marketing
Orchestration
11. Step 1: Focus on the
Customer Journey
Not on single campaigns!
12. Source: Ipsos OTX/Google 2012 Holiday Shopping Intentions Survey Wave 1: (Q11). In which of the following ways do you think you’ll approach your Holiday shopping?
44% Research online
and purchase online
51% Research online
prior to store visit
32%
Research online,
visit store to view product,
then return online to purchase
17% Visit store first,
then purchase online
The Buyer Journey is not Linear
13. Customer
Interactions
Events SMS Mobile Blogs Call Center Location Communities
Push Facebook Twitter Wearables Retail Email Devices+
SMS
Opportunity to connect anywhere, anytime
14. A framework that:
shows how customers
interact with your brand
uses the customer
perspective
helps you improve
customer experience
identifies gaps and prioritizes
investments
Use Customer Journey Maps to Gain Perspective & Identify
Opportunities
15. • Visualise the holistic customer
journey
• Uncover the combination of
online and offline channels
over time
• Understand customer journeys
in aggregate or individually
• Take action to accelerate the
journey or minimise struggles
Understand the whole experience with a journey map
19. 11%
14%
24%
28%
32%
33%
38%
39%
Ways in which US smartphone owners plan to use their smartphones while holiday shopping, Oct 2014
% of Respondents
Note: n=1,181 ages 18+ Source: Placecast, “Trends on Mobile Use This Holiday Season” conducted by Harris Poll, Nov 26, 2014
To look for an item in a search engine to find a local retailer
To take a picture of a potential gift to text to a friend or family member for their opinion
To search for a coupon for a store I am in
To search for a coupon for an item/brand I plan to purchase
To check availability of items at specific local retailers
To scan QR code and compare prices at other stores/online
To use my phone to make a purchase
For something else
Mobile App is the catalyst for sales capture eleswhere!
20. Added value over mobile
site – e.g. ibeacons,
barcode scanning
Entices users to keep
coming back
It has great customer
experience
Data captured will be
useful
Replica of mobile site
Only used for selling, not
engagement
Limited features/content –
no reason to engage
Keeping up with the
competition
Mobile App Engagement Opportunity
22. Sephora provides meaningful
content, with the personality
of a friend and shopping
companion
Example: IBM Customer Sephora uses brand tone to build
engagement
Notification Inbox Simple Notification
24. of customer journeys are
more strongly correlated
with customer satisfaction
and willingness
to recommend than
uncoordinated
communications.
Orchestration delivers greater efficiency
and higher customer satisfaction.
Over
50% 30%
of customer interactions
occur during a multi-
event, multi-channel
journey.
The customer now leads the journey.
Marketing Orchestration: More Important than Ever
As Marketers, we are aware that the environment has changed and the customer is now in control of the relationship. Anyone selling online is faced with the reality that customers are engaging with them 24/7, so much of this interaction is happening when the marketer is not even in the office.
We know that customers are doing far more before they even talk to a buyer, in fact up to 80% of the decision making process can happen before you get an opportunity to talk to the customer
Customers are using digital channels to do their up front research and also to purchase. We have the opportunity for immediacy and we’re using it.
So as a result, mobile engagement is up, as well as social – we rely so much on social information to give us feedback on things we are interested in – whether its checking out Trip advisor for a hotel or Open Table for a new restaurant. And we are also very happy to share our opinion back onto these channels too!
Customer is more engaged in product/brand research and more plugged into digital channels than ever.
But more mature channels are NOT going away, Email is still the most cost effective marketing channel and continues to be the preferred channel of the majority of consumers
So each customer is also engaged with you in literally dozens of ways, before and after conversion.
It’s up to the marketer today to know and understand these interactions relative to the experience they are having with you. Even if they are wandering into a physical location, chances are they have browsed the Web on the desktops or mobile phones before entering your store.
Because we know that 56% of customer interactions happen in a multi-channel event.
What does that mean? Well basically, a customer is likely to interact with your brand at multiple times before they buy, and they may use a number of different channels to complete those interactions – whether its, looking into a product because they receive an email with an offer, then following up in store to view the product in more detail before calling into a call centre to place an order or going back to their browser to do this. We need to understand that each of these interactions are all a step in the same journey and we need to support the customer through to the next step
To add to this complexity, we also know that Consumers now have up to 4 devices:
Who has 2 phones, and a laptop, a work computer and a tablet? Perhaps even more???
So its not just the different channels and timings we are trying to navigate but we also need to still recognise the same consumer when they return on a different device and add this to the overall picture.
As consumers in the digital era, we are now sharing so much more information about ourselves than we ever did before and we expect that information to be used effectively.
Today’s consumer has extremely high expectations which as Marketers we need to address.
They expect the journey across channels and devices to be seamless and integrated
They expect that we should use the information they have shared with us effectively and have used it to understand them better and recognise their wants and needs so that we can present them with relevant and timely personalised information.
Now, 81% of brands believe they are doing this
They feel they understand their customers well and know their requirements.
Unfortunately only 37% of consumers feel their favourite brands understand them
That’s just their favourite brands too! The majority of the time therefore, we feel as consumers that despite the data we have shared, it has not been understood and utilised effectively to support the customer journey.
But why?
Its actually not that Marketers are deliberately doing a bad job here but there are a number of challenges standing in their way:
The data is not all in one place – and potentially its not all owned by marketing
This can make getting a single view of the customer very difficult as you try to pull together a view of the customer from your website, in store activity, social pages, mobile app etc
Without that single view of the customer it becomes challenging to support providing a consistent and relevant experience for the customer
And as channels continue to grow, this continues to become more and more difficult!
And ultimately what that means is it is harder to attract customers
Grow the relationships you have with your existing customers. Increase customer retention, average order value, lifetime value and ultimately
Build brand loyalty and engagement
So, what can you do?
We have put together 3 steps to help you with creating a highly personalised Brand Experience and I’m going to take you through those 3 steps over the next few minutes
So: Step 1
Focus on the customer journey rather than specific campaigns!
So what do I mean by this?
What we know is that the buyer journey is not linear
As we discussed earlier, 56% of journeys happen in a multi step, multi channel experience
The outcome of those journeys is important but lets take a step back and think about how we get them to that outcome.
If you haven’t done some work to map out your customers journeys then this is a good time to think about them and start to understand how they are flowing through your various channels to your end point.
A journey map will help provide you with a detailed view into the flow of a customers experience with your brand.
Your customers may be connecting with you in a myriad of different ways:
Receiving SMS offers
Looking up information on your mobile site
Reading a blog posting
Viewing a product instore
Reviewing feedback on a community site
The options are wide but as we said, they are likely connecting with many of these different options through their journey, so you want to connect them and understand the flow.
By mapping out the customer journey you can gain a better perspective on your customer and identify how you might want to modify or enhance that experience for them
You might get better insight into their perspective on how your channels and information is accessed and how consistent they are
Perhaps it helps you understand where the experience could be better, or is not up to the standard you would like your brand to be known for
It might also help you to look into gaps and assess where you might want to make changes in the future
Using a tool to map out and understand the various steps and flows in the journey you get a more holistic perspective on your customers.
What it can also do is help you to understand how your customers are using your on and off line channels in combination
As well as potentially uncovering issues/challenges that are directing customers down a path you would prefer to avoid – e.g. is badly placed information on your website leading customers to call your call centre more readily than you would like
One you understand these paths and connections between your channels you will be in a better position to decide if changes are required to accelerate their journey or smooth out issues or struggles they may encounter
Ultimately, this is aimed at accelerating your path to purchase and helping to drive more positive relationships with your customers.
So Step 2 is about Engagement Marketing
So, consider what you learned from the first step and begin to apply it to your marketing efforts.
This is what we call Engagement Marketing because Engagement is about the holistic experience of how your customers will interact with you
Buying is a single Engagement. If you only engage with your customers when they are buying then you are in danger that your competitors may be attracting them away from you in between those purchases.
Think about the journey in terms of engagement
How am I building a relationship with my customer/potential customer
Although most brands are utilizing many of the marketing channels available to them, brands would do well to differentiate themselves by optimizing a particular strategy, one that helps them stand out.
This is not to say, don’t do other forms of marketing
But part of that is leveraging the right channels – the ones that work best for YOUR brand
There is so much competition in the market, it is easy to be drowned out in the noise. But there are probably some things you are doing well – perhaps you have a really fun and intuitive website or your instore experience is 2nd to none.
Rather than trying to replicate and stay in line with what your competitors are doing, this is about focusing on what you are good at, what you are known or liked for and building your engagement strategy around that – amplify and enhance that as your key engagement strategy
Here’s an example – Mobile Apps
Apps are used by us for a range of different things – but do you really know what customers are using yours for or what they value most about your app?
Also, does your app fit into your overall customer engagement strategy, have you thought about how it can support or enhance customer engagement?
e.g is your app a great place to reengage with your customers and drive them back instore with an offer or coupon?
Or can you purchase directly from the app and can you use the app to drive people responding to offers in your emails directly into the app to complete their purchase?
What is critical here is, ensuring that it supports and has been thought through as part of your engagement strategy and is not simply a ‘me too!’ with no thought for the benefits and uses to your customer
We know that a large proportion of apps downloaded are viewed once and deleted or never used again – why is that?
Perhaps you haven’t thought about the purpose and value you are trying to create for your customers in your app – did you perhaps just build it because your competitors have one? Is there no difference between your app and your mobile site?
Instead, think of the value of your app – does it use location tracking so you can perhaps send messages to customers when they are near one of your stores?
Does it have a mechanism to continue to entice customers to come back in – can you track your loyalty points quickly there? Immediately see new releases, get access to exclusive offers?
Ok, lets look at some customer examples:
So I love this example and would be so happy if someone could build this for me on my tube journey home from the office n London.
This is all about being different/standing out
This example comes from a Korean grocery store. Let me talk you through this, they have created a virtual store at the train station
Buyers simply use the app to review the products and select what they need, before they board their train
The purchase is made in-app and when they arrive at their home station, they can collect their shopping from the store and head home
I love it! Its brilliant. Its interactive and simple! But it also stands out and speaks to the personality of the brand.
Another example is Sephora – this is about connecting the online & offline channels effectively
So, if you buy make up from any of the larger brands you know that heading there on a Saturday morning is a nightmare, they are all busy and people are queuing up for appointments with the consultants
The app for Sephora addresses this by enabling you to book your appointments in advance and connects the app to the physical store
Additionally, because their channels are all connected, they known what and when you purchased and can use that information and their own knowledge of expiry dates or product usage to predict when you will need to order more and can push a notification to remind you to come back in store or buy more online
Ok, moving on, Step 3 – Marketing Orchestration
So, just to remind you, as we mentioned at the beginning – over 50% of customer interactions happen in a multi-channel, multi-event journey
What we see is where the journeys are orchestrated, rather than single uncoordinated communications, there is a stronger correlation to customer satisfaction
Marketing orchestration is the execution of marketing across channels, across device.
What’s different between orchestration and omni-channel is that orchestration is about execution, not just data.
It’s the right time, right device part.
In other words, your channels should work together in a finely tuned way.
So what this is about, is gaining a view of the customer as a single identity and using that insight to drive to a consistent and relevant experience
For example, you might send an email to a customer, they open it but don’t click
So the following day you also send them an SMS and this time they do click to engage with your website and they put a product into their basket, however they fail to check out
So, the following day, you send a push notification via your mobile app to remind them of the abandoned basket and enable them to check out via the app.
You also segment them for placement of relevant Facebook adds
That is Marketing orchestration
So those are our 3 steps to a highly personalised brand experience
Focus on the customer journey – not single campaigns
Think about your engagement marketig strategy – how your channels are connected, what you want to be known for
Coordinate and connect all these steps in the journey so its seamless for the customer
Watson Marketing can support you in all of these steps and help you to achieve that highly personalised brand experience
If you would like to find out more, please do stop by our stand to have a chat and learn some more